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KMID : 0391519940020010144
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Journal of the Korean Child Neurology Society
1994 Volume.2 No. 1 p.144 ~ p.152
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A Clinical Study on Myasthenia Gravis in Childhood
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Abstract
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Twenty-seven cases of myasthenia gravis in childhood were diagnosed and treated in the Department of Pediatrics. Inje University Hospital from february 1981till february 1994 were reviewed clinically, Mean age of myasthenia gravis was
5.02±3.11years of
age and 16 cases(59.3%) were below the age of 5 years. Male to female ratio was 1:1.7. Most common initial clinical manifestation was ptosis noted all cases, followed by strabismus, diplopia, and impairment of lateral gaze, Edrophonium and
neostigmine
test were positive in all cases and antiacetylcholine receptor antibody was positive in two cases among 3 in which antiacetylcholine receptor antibody study was bone, There was no associated disease except one case of hyperthyroidism.
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